[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Cleaning up stdlib pointer and buffer routines (Open Issues Affecting Standard Library API Stability)

[Charlie Monroe]

> On Jul 7, 2016, at 12:46 AM, Jordan Rose via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2016, at 11:03, Jacob Bandes-Storch via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>> 
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>> * Remove unsafeAddressOf. "We are not aware of any real use cases for it. If there are any, it should be renamed to unsafeAddress(of:) to follow the guidelines." (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1957 <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1957> rdar://problem/18589289 <>)
>> 
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>> Oops, I just responded to this on another thread. Pasting:
>> 
>> It's minor, but I use unsafeAddressOf regularly for writing `description` methods:
>> 
>>     var description: String {
>>         return "<\(self.dynamicType): \(unsafeAddressOf(self))>{ more info here... }"
>>     }
>> 
>> I guess this would be covered by some generalized solution for format specifiers in string interpolations, but I gather that won't happen for quite a while... 
> 
> I believe `ObjectIdentifier(self)` prints basically the same way.
> 
> Jordan

Unfortunately, it doesn't:

print("\(ObjectIdentifier(obj))")

--> ObjectIdentifier(_value: (Opaque Value))




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